Criticism follows rise in courthouse immigration arrests

James Queally Los Angeles Times

Originally published March 20, 2017 at 03:15a.m., updated March 20, 2017 at 03:15a.m.

LOS ANGELES -- In the past few weeks, attorneys and prosecutors in California, Arizona, Texas and Colorado have all reported teams of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents -- some in uniform, some not -- sweeping into courtrooms or lurking outside court complexes, waiting to arrest people who are in the country illegally.